Atlanta earned two-and-a-half park benches in the Trust's ParkScore index, an improvement from the city's two bench score in 2012, SaportaReport.com says.

Scores are based on park access, park size, park services and investment.

The other three cities with better park bench ratings are New York, Long Beach and Fresno, Calif. Minneapolis was the only city to have a perfect score of five park benches.

Still the Atlanta results are mixed, SaportaReport.com adds. The Trust increased the number of U.S. cities in its ranking from 40 to 50 cities. As a result, Atlanta’s ranking went from No. 26 among 40 cities to being tied for No. 31 among 50 cities.

Atlanta’s score was helped by a high number of playgrounds (2.6 per 10,000 residents, an amount above the ParkScore average of 2.25), but hurt by park acreage (5.3 percent of Atlanta’s city area is devoted to parkland, compared to the national ParkScore average of more than 10 percent.), SaportaReport.com says.

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